September 14, 2016

Conservative Republicans backed off their demands for an immediate vote on impeaching Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen after U.S. House leaders promised to hold a Judiciary Committee hearing.

(Paul Mirengoff) The NCAA has pulled seven championship events from North Carolina because it objects to the state's law on use by transgender persons of public restrooms. Most of the championship events are not very important except to the participants and their families and friends. But the events include two rounds of the men's basketball tournament (the round of 64 and the round of 32). That's a big deal. I'm disgusted by

Despite reaching its funding goal, Amadas will cancel its Kickstarter campaign on Monday, as it wasn't as successful as the company hoped, the company's CEO tells me. The challenge is that the backers and the company had some misunderstandings about the features of the product. The campaign might make a return to the platform early next year. Read More

A British man who tried to steal a police officer's gun so that he could shoot Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a June 18 campaign event in Las Vegas pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to two felony counts connected to the incident.

The final day of Disrupt is upon us. Which means that I don't have the energy for enthusiasm. That said, today's lineup is absolutely killer. Alongside some amazing speakers, including Twitch's Emmett Shear, Facebook's Adam Mosseri, and Instacart's Apoorva Mehta, we're also heading into the Finals of the Battlefield. Finalists include BlazingDB, Carbon… Read More

Answers to 25 questions about Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server that the Democratic presidential nominee was ordered by a court to give to Judicial Watch on Sept. 29 are now due Oct. 13, according to the conservative group.

(Scott Johnson) The Clintons are having trouble keeping their lies straight. That's the conclusion I draw from Bill Clinton's interview with CBS's Charlie Rose on Monday. Rose asked Clinton if the missus was simply dehydrated when she collapsed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday. "When you look at that collapse, that video that was taken, you wonder if it's not more serious than dehydration," Rose observes. "Well, if it is, then

Activists and lawyers from a host of human rights organizations launched a campaign today asking President Obama to issue a pardon to whistleblower Edward Snowden before Obama leaves office in January. The coalition includes the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other groups. Snowden is charged with espionage for leaking internal National… Read More

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was set to tape an interview on "The Dr. Oz Show" Wednesday morning but it wouldn't be on his medical reports or recent physical exam, senior campaign aides said.

Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson says he'll be on the ballot in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, lending his candidacy some legitimacy as he continues his full-court press to try to qualify for the first presidential debate later this month.

Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that. Today, the company said it is launching an app on the Apple TV, Xbox One and Amazon Fire TV, which will allow users to view Twitter content through the apps on their televisions. That includes live streams of 10 NFL… Read More

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell complained in leaked e-mails that Hillary Clinton's "minions" were "making a mistake trying to drag" him into the story about her use of a private server during her time as secretary of state following his use of AOL e-mail, according to a Tuesday report in BuzzFeed.

(Scott Johnson) If you've been following the story of Hillary's Clinton's pneumonia on television, you may have heard that Clinton wanted to "power through" her pneumonia, but after Sunday's overheating episode, it "seems like the smart thing to do" to take some downtime, even though she s "raring to get back on the trail." If you have heard this, it's because these are among the six bulleted talking points the Clinton public

Google is announcing a couple of upgrades to its ad capabilities today as part of the DMEXCO digital media conference in Germany. First up are its Universal App Campaigns, where developers can promote their apps across search, display, Google Play and YouTube advertising. Google says these campaigns have resulted in more than 3 billion app downloads, but earlier this year, it also said… Read More

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, who is considering running as a Republican against Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018, would start any such campaign as a decided underdog, according to a WBUR/MassINC poll.

The Apple Watch Series 2 is the first real Apple Watch. It delivers on the promise of a mostly passive device that can accomplish simple tasks in 1-3 seconds. There is now built-in GPS which allows for exercising without having to lug along a comparatively heavy iPhone just to get accurate tracking. And it's completely waterproof, as any decent sport watch should be. Read More

The U.S. intelligence community declined to conduct a required assessment of the damage to national security caused by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton sending and receiving secrets on a private email server.

"ODNI is not leading an [intelligence community]-wide damage assessment and is not aware of any individual IC element conducting such formal assessments," Joel D. Melstad, a spokesman for the of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - The White House was submerged in scandal. Democrats faced tough midterm elections. And Hillary Clinton, far more popular than her embattled husband, had become a one-woman campaign machine.

But the nonstop travel in 1998 took a toll. Clinton developed a blood clot behind her right ...

Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London this December 5-6th. The Battlefield is TechCrunch's premiere startup competition. Three times a year, the Battlefield takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt, where 20-something new companies will have the opportunity to present their product live onstage. They then face questions from our expert judging panel. In the… Read More